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Read [Bruce Ackerman Book] * We the People: Volume 2: Transformations Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. We the People: Volume 2: Transformations A bold challenge to formalist and fundamentalist views, this volume demonstrates that ongoing struggle over America's national identity, rather than consensus, marks its constitutional history.. In each case he shows how the American people--whether led by the Founding Federalists or the Lincoln Republicans or the Roosevelt Democrats--have confronted the Constitution in its moments of great crisis with dramatic acts of upheaval, always in the name of popular sovereignty. The Founding Fathers, ha
| Title | : | We the People: Volume 2: Transformations |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (588 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674003977 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
"Attractive, appealing, well researched theories." according to Shane Gibson. Bruce Ackerman eloquently uses the "higher lawmaking" theory just as Adam Smith used his invisible hand. Instead of guiding the American economic system and gross national product, Ackerman's higher lawmaking theory provides that the American ratification of the Constitution of the United States is led by things other than the system of ratification provided for us in Article V of the Const
A bold challenge to formalist and fundamentalist views, this volume demonstrates that ongoing struggle over America's national identity, rather than consensus, marks its constitutional history.. In each case he shows how the American people--whether led by the Founding Federalists or the Lincoln Republicans or the Roosevelt Democrats--have confronted the Constitution in its moments of great crisis with dramatic acts of upheaval, always in the name of popular sovereignty. The Founding Fathers, hardly the genteel conservatives of myth, set America on a remarkable course of revolutionary disruption and constitutional creativity that endures to this day. Another wrenching transformation occurred during the Great Depression, when Franklin Roosevelt and his New Dealers vindicated a new vision of activist government against an assault by the Supreme Court.These are the crucial episodes in American constitutional history that Ackerman takes up in this second volume of a trilogy hailed as "one of the most important contributions to American constitutional thought in the last half-century" (Cass Sunstein, New Repub
. Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University
Running through its narrative and serving to make it a compelling one is the story of how the United States has developed from a federation of states to a nation. (Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School)Two myths sustain the American people, Ackerman suggests. (Kermit L. The second is that our Constitution is so artfully constructed that changing it, for good or bad, is nearly impossible. It sounds rather, well, unconstitutional to say the Constitution can be ignored when great issues are at stake, so long as the People are o
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